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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote The Passionate Shepherd to His Love?
(a) E.E. Cummings.
(b) William Yeats.
(c) Christopher Marlowe.
(d) Shakespeare.

2. How does the woman in The Philosopher think she should love?
(a) Wisely.
(b) Passionately.
(c) Endlessly.
(d) Compassionately.

3. Who wrote May I Feel Said He?
(a) William Yeates.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) E.E. Cummings.
(d) Christopher Marlowe.

4. What does Emily Dickinson compare herself to?
(a) A barge.
(b) A bird.
(c) A bee.
(d) A boat.

5. What does the man in To His Mistress Going to Bed say a woman needs to cover her at night?
(a) A sheet.
(b) Hair.
(c) A man.
(d) Passion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of love does Wendy Cope describe?

2. What was a joy to the mother in Night Waitress?

3. What kind of poet is Gregory Corso?

4. What does the man in Protocols hope the sun will burn away?

5. In A Type of Loss, what does the woman lose when she breaks up?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is At the Café about?

2. What is Having a Coke With You about?

3. What is To Paula in Late Spring about?

4. What is Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour about?

5. What is Well I Have Lost You about?

6. What is To Aphrodite of the Flowers, at Knossos about?

7. What is To Speak of Woe That Is In Marriage about?

8. What is Variation on the Word Sleep about?

9. What is Youth about?

10. What is Lilacs about?

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